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Things That Made Me Pause

1. Claire told me at breakfast that she’s never seen me cry.
2. Bryant asked if a girl could ask to marry him, or if he would have to do it.
3. Claire said she touched the bottom of the deep end of the pool when she jumped off the diving board for the first time.
4. Chapter one of “Light In August” by Faulkner
5. Trying to find the right explanation for Bryant regarding the difference between “working things out in a group where everyone gives a little” and “merely changing one’s words to keep pushing the same agenda just in different ways”.
6. Watching Claire have a temper tantrum at the pool yesterday, wondering when kids outgrow these.
7. Listening to Bryant and Claire laughing and calling each other “Bwyant” and “Cware” like they used to several years back. (They think this is super funny and laugh their heads off at old video footage of themselves as toddlers).
8. When Claire asked me for a real live fuzzy rabbit for her birthday coming up.
9. When I heard there are three GIRLS moving into the house across the street, no boys. 🙁
10. Watching Bryant use his spoon like a shovel, eating like a teenaged boy.

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